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Patented Dec. 9, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

RALPH LOWENBAUH, 01' ST. LOUIS, .IISBOUBI, ASSIGNOB TO B. LOWENBAUI G.60., 0] ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A. CORPORATION OF MISSOURI Application mSeptember 2, 1930. Serial no. 479,140.

This invention relates generally to womens wearing apparel and, moreparticularly, to a certain new and useful lmprovement in womenscombination or convertible garments.

My invention has for its chief object the provision of an apparelgarment whichmay with ease, convenience, and facility be selectivelyconverted for appropriate wear on different occasions.

My invention has for a further object the provision of a convertiblegarment of the type stated which may be inexpensively and economicallyconstructed, which is simple in structure, and which is pleasing andattractive in appearance in either of its convertible forms.

And with the above and other objects in view, my invention resides inthe provision of an article of wearing apparel for womens use comprisinga foundation-garment especially adapted for sports wear and associatedsections for ready attachment to the foundation garment for convertingthe same selectively for street-wear, night-wear, boudoir and beachwear, and in the novel features of form, construction, arrangement, andcombination of parts hereinafter described and pointed out in theclaims. 1

In the accompanying drawings,-

Figure 1 is a semi-elevational-perspective view of the foundationgarment of the present wearing-apparel of my invention;

Figure 2 shows in elevation the associated companion sections forattachment for converting purposes to the foundation garment of Figure1;

Figure 3 is a semi-elevational perspective view of thefoundation-garment converted for use for night, boudoir, or beach-wear;

Figure 4 is a similar view of the foundation garment converted forstreet wear; and

Figure 5 is a rear semi-elevational-perspect-ive view of the convertedstreet garment of Figure 4 with one of the converting sections removed.

Referring now more in detail and by reference characters to thedrawings, which illustrate a preferred embodiment of my invention, Adesignates the foundation garment,

called which includes a waist 1 terminatin at a proximately thewaist-line for encirc ing t e upper part of the body, and drawers orsoshorts 2 closed at the crotch and comprising leg enclosing sections 3,3, and a rear drop seat section 4. The drawers or shorts 2 are in thefront of the arment suitably conjoined-to and depend om a waistband 5,which preferably permanently connects the waist 1 and the drawers 2, thedro seat section 4 opening at the rear of t e waist 1 and being adaptedfor closin connection to the waist 1 as by a suitable astening means orbutton-and-button-hole arrangement, as at 6. The waist 1 preferablyopens down the back, as best seen in Figure 5, and

suitable fastening means or button-and-button-hole arrangements, as at7, serve to secure the waist 1 and consequently also the garment A uponthe person, the garment A being dressed on the body or figure after themanner of a so-called step-in, union-suit, or the like,

The foundation garment A forms 8,1601!- venient and effective dress forespecially sports or gymnasium wear. However, for converting the garmentA for other and additional uses or for wear selectively on differentoccasions, the garment A is provided transversely therearound atitswaist with a series of suitably spaced buttons or the like 8, of whichthe buttons 6 may be a part, and each leg-member 3 is also providedtherearound adjacent its lower margin with a series of correspondinglyspaced buttons or the like 9.

For converting co-operation with the garment A and its attaching members8 and 9, are preferably identical companion sections B, B, each of whichis constructed of preferably the same flexible material as that ofgarment A and each of which has preferably the segmental or downwardlyand outwardly flaring form and contour best seen in Figure 2. As thereshown, each of the garment converting sections B, B, is substantially inthe form of a segment, its top and bottom margins being of arcuateconformation, as at b, b, and its opposite side margins 0 being ofoblique conformation, connecting the ad jacent ends of its top andbottom margins.

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Each section B, B, is referabl neatl marginally bound, as at andadjacent its top complemental fastenings, such as buttons 8 and 9, onthe waist-line and on the le -portions below the crotch of the garmentIt will be understood that the garment A and its associate or convertingsections B, B, are constructed in'proper relative size proportions anddimensions, and in use, the respective sections B, B, may at thelrrespective button-holes 10 be attached to the buttons 9 to depend in legcovering arrangement from the foundation-drawers 2. Preferably, eachsection B, B, is so attached to its respective drawer-leg 3 so that 1tsside margins c depend in overlapping relation along the outer side ofthe leg, as shown 1n Figure 3 and to facilitate the attaching locationof each section B, B, upon the respective legs 3, the sections B, B, areeach preferably provided approximately in the longitudinal center of itstop margin 1) with a snap couplet member or the like 11 adapted forco-operative engagement with a respective companion member 12 suitablyfixed in location roviding position on the drawerleg 3, as est seen inFigure 1.

Thus the foundation-garment A is readily and conveniently convertedinto, and for interchangeable use as, a garment of pajama type, withlong, full leg-coverings, for night, boudoir, or beach wear.

Similarly, the one section B may be attached at its button-holes 10 tosome of the buttons 8 to depend from the waist of the garment A indrawer-covering or dress formation, the section B being) so attached inthe front of the garment and eing of such relative dimensions that, whenso attached, it for the most part encircles the body of the wearer, asbest seen in Figure 5, its side marginal portions 0 bein disposed insomewhat s aced relation in the rear of the wearer.

e companion section B is similarly attached at its button-holes 10 tosome of the buttons 8 to likewise depend from the waist of the garment Ain drawer-covering or skirt formation, the companion section B, however,being oppositely disposed in its attachment to the Waist to the sectionB, the section B being attached for the most part in the rear of thegarment and its side margins 0 being correspondingly presented in thefront of the garment. The section B thereby covers and conceals thespace that would ordinarily be present between the somewhat muses s acedside margins c of the under section the mar 'nal portions 0 of thecompanion section Bv ing disposed in the front of the garment inoverlapping relation u n the under section B, as best seen in F1gure 4.Thus the com anion sections B, B, are also adapted to se ectivelyconvert the foundation garment A into quite an attractive dress suitablefor street wear, the drop-seat 4 being readily accessible upon a merepartial un- 7 buttoning of one or both the sections B, B, as will. beobvious.

In such manner, I provide for womens wear a garment with co-operative orassociate interchangeable sections, whereby the garment is not onlyadapted for sports or gymnastic wear, but may with ease and conveniencebe converted selectively for interchangeable use as pajamas for night,boudoir, or beach wear or as a dress for street wear.

It will be understood that any other suitable co-operable attachingmembers may be substituted for theseries of buttons and button-holesdescribed, and that other changes and modifications in the form,construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of thegarment may be made and sub stituted for those herein shown anddescribed without departing from the nature and principle of myinvention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is:

1. In an article of womens wearing apparel, a foundationgarmenticomprislng a waist and short drawers, the latter comprising apair of leg-encircling members, and the garment being circumferentiallyprovided at approximately its waist-line with a series 'of attachingmembers and being also provided circumferentially along the lowermargins of each of said leg-members with a series of attaching members,in combination with separate companion sections of segmental confiration each provided at its top margin wit a series of attaching-membersfor cooperable engagement with the respective attaching members of thegarment, said sections being selectively attachable with either saidwaist-line attachingmembers or with said leg-attaching members to dependfrom either the waist or the legmembers of the garment for convertingthe garment into pajama or dress-formation.

'2. In an article of womens wearing apparel, a foundation-garmentcomprising a waist and drawers, in combination with separate segmentalcompanion sections adapted when in opposed and marginally overlappingrelation to provide a skirt for the garment, each of said sectionsflaring downwardly and outwardly from its upper margin and having alength at its upper margin less than that of the waist-measurement ofthe garment, each of said sections also having a. series of fasteningsalong its upper margin, and series of equally spaced complementalfastenings substantially on the waist-line of the garment, some of saidlatter fastenings co-operating with fastenings of both said sections fordependingly connecting said sections to the garment in said opposed andmarginally overlapping relation for converting the garment intodress-formation.

3. In an article of womens wearing apparel, a foundation-garmentcomprising a waist and short drawers, in combination with separatecompanion sections, and series of fastenings on each of said sectionsand on the waist-line of the garment and on, and

below the crotch of, the drawers for cooperative engagement forselective detachable connection of said sections to the waist or drawersof the garment for converting the garment into either pajama ordress-formation.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

RALPH LOWENBAUM.

